Word: telegrapher
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Last week Mr. Hoover had a whiz of a plot. Its characters were mostly people in the swarming ruck of New York City: an elevator mechanic, a telegraph office clerk, a baker, a telephone linesman, a chauffeur, a power company clerk, a tailor, a correspondence school salesman. Some belonged to the Army and Navy reserves or the National Guard; one was a captain. The props included twelve Springfield rifles, 3,500 rounds of ammunition reportedly stolen from National Guard armories, one long sword, 18 cans of cordite powder, a collection of soup and beer cans with accessories for turning them...
...night 10 years ago a stranger ambled into the Chelsea, Okla. station of the Frisco Line to file a telegram. He noticed a guitar resting beside the telegraph operator, a fellow named Autry, and requested They Plowed the Old Trail Under. Autry sang it, whereupon the stranger took the guitar and sang Casey Jones. The stranger chatted a while, told Autry his voice might get him somewhere some day, handed him a stick of chewing gum, and left his telegram. It was signed "Will Rogers...
Tidd began his career working for Postal Telegraph in Waverly, N. Y. His first month he made $17-in commissions, by using high-pressure tactics selling telegrams. Soon after that, Postal tried to persuade him to take a salary because he was making too much money. By 1904, after night-schooling his way into utility engineering, he was an operating company executive. Nowadays he sits in No. 30 Church Street, Manhattan (home, too, of the New York Railroad Club, where U. S. heavy industrialists lunch in droves), smokes cigarets incessantly, machine-guns his words a few sentences at a time...
Minnie was finally located in Crowborough, Sussex by the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post. She proved to be a grey-haired spinster who recently taught in the Social Science Department of the London School of Economics. According to the Telegraph, Minnie some 25 years ago published privately in aid of an Indian charity a book of verses called The Desert, and the lines quoted by His Majesty are in her verse God Knows. After further inquiring, the BBC challenged the Telegraph's, God Knows theory, went on the air with an announcement that the lines occur...
...personal column of the London Daily Telegraph, Lady Harwood, wife of newly promoted Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, pocketer of the Admiral Graf Spee, ". . . wishes to express her sincere sympathy with relatives of the officers and men who fell in the gallant action in La Plata...